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    DIY Bunting Card

    June 15, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    DIY Bunting Card Having concentrated mostly on sewing for the last few years, I’ve decided with one thing and another to change direction a little bit and include more of other crafts. This is actually what I did when I started Tea and a Sewing Machine. It was…

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    Year of Bunting June Challenge: Bunting For Outdoors

    June 14, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives

    Year of Bunting June Challenge: Bunting For Outdoors Welcome to the June challenge for the Year of Bunting! May’s challenge was to make some bunting featuring flowers. Hazel made some lovely bunting for her dresser with appliqued flowers. I was thinking about doing something similar to this myself,…

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    Tea Dress Refashion: Adjusting Fit, Length and Style

    June 8, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Dress Refashion: Adjusting Fit, Length and Style Last summer I bought this dress. The print was pretty, the fabric draped nicely and I liked the print. Although I don’t do yellow (I’m not Josie Jump!), the flowers made me think of harvest time. It was about the time…

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  • The Sewing Journal! Bunting or Cherry Blossom?

    May 16, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog

    The Sewing Journal! Bunting or Cherry Blossom? Who doesn’t love a pretty notebook? I’m lucky enough to have family members who fuel my mild addiction by giving me notebooks for birthdays and Christmas! The only problem is that I usually have several notebooks on the go at once…

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    Year of Bunting Challenge 4: Bunting With Flowers

    May 4, 2019September 22, 2023 Blog

    Year of Bunting Challenge 4: Bunting With Flowers I have a hard time deciding which is my favourite season, do you? I like the autumn. Crispy leaves, golden light and woodsmoke. Winter’s nice when you get a clear crisp day. When it’s horrible out, you can light the…

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    Free Crocheted Bunting Pattern

    April 25, 2019June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives

    Free Crocheted Bunting Pattern Making crocheted bunting is a fun way to use up odds and ends of yarn from other projects. This pattern shows how to make traditional bunting triangles, worked in the round. The triangles are quite small, although obviously that depends on the weight of…

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Being out in nature always feels precious. It does Being out in nature always feels precious. It doesn't matter very much what time of year it is, or what the weather is doing.

Today I wanted to get outside while it was still light. Yesterday it was after 3pm and it was already gloomy!

Today is lovely and bright, even though everywhere is damp and muddy after all the rain.

#winter #December #norfolkfens #slowingdownabit #wildblossomlife
De influencing your Christmas. You're welcome ๐Ÿคฃ De influencing your Christmas. You're welcome ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿคช

We got the tree from the same place we always do. It's a bit too big for the space. My youngest boy suggested measuring the space then measuring the trees before choosing one, but nobody remembered when we went to get the tree ๐ŸŒฒ 

I love all our decorations that hold so many memories but it looks nothing like the aesthetic, perfectly decorated trees that I have mostly seen on here. Actually, it looks a bit less of a mess than it has in the past. That could be because my helper is now taller and doesn't try to shove the decorations all on the same branches.

The telly is on in the first picture. We were watching something with James May and his buddies making things in his giant shed, except kids with phones who were not.

My youngest wanted to check how much space there was under the tree. Thankfully he didn't knock it over!

The cat thinks she is a Christmas decoration.

Aaaaannd... The last 2 pictures show how much mess was made getting the tree in .

Merry Christmas! ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ””๐Ÿ’•

#deinfluencing #realchristmas #mess #catsofchristmas #wildblossomlife
I went out looking for red, but what I noticed was I went out looking for red, but what I noticed was green!

The theme of December's Wild Blossom Companion is red, so I thought I might look for red things. There are plenty, berries, post boxes, horses (and humans) wearing red coats. But what caught my eye were the greens. 

๐Ÿ’š Lichen
๐Ÿ’š A green fence 
๐Ÿ’š Green patches on the bark of a tree
๐Ÿ’š Some green leaves still
๐Ÿ’š One of many colours on an oak leaf

It's as though now the leaves are mostly gone, other greens are easier to spot. When we have a good look, what we see is not always what we expect ๐Ÿ’šโค๏ธ

#wildblossomlife
#wildblossomcompanion
#green
#slowdecember
#getoutside 
#slowdownandnotice
Foraged wreath... Years ago, I used to make a wre Foraged wreath...

Years ago, I used to make a wreath from flower foam and Leyland cypress. But my neighbour's cypresses where my garden joined theirs were replaced by a fence, and I eventually realised that flower foam was really just plastic, it's not recyclable or compostable and it doesn't break down properly.

In the past I've made tied wreaths and ones from dried satsumas and slices of orange.

This year I wanted to make a foraged wreath. I've tried before and what I made looked sad. I don't have access to very much willow.

I was inspired by @crochetcrazyhelen to grab some twigs and stuff them in a big pot. My garden yielded all kinds of good stuff, brambles, out of control honeysuckle, dogwood, and ivy. Being a bad gardener pays off surprisingly often!

I decided my pot was too small, so I tried a drum head (my eldest son is drummer @dominic__0036 ), but that was too big. You know what Goldilocks also had? Hair. And probably bobbles. So I bent the brambles and things round in a circle and held them in place with hair bobbles, before tying it together with wool.

I did originally plan to add some berries and seed heads, but I actually like it as it is ๐Ÿ’–

#wildblossomlife #foragedwreath #slowdecember #natureinspired #advent #makeityourself
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